To:L. B. KAMENEV

Written:Written on February 25, 1913Published:First published in full in the Fifth (Russian) Edition of theCollected Works.

      Sent from Cracow to Paris.

      Printed from the original.Source:Lenin
	  Collected Works,

      Progress Publishers,[1976],

      Moscow,Volume 35,

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Iam sending you Poletayev’s letter (return it
immediately) and a short article (also to be
returned)....[1]

Ihave readCurrent Topics. What scoundrels! But, we
don’t know whether to attack orkeep silentabout these
young pigs. Is it really worth pitching into them now?
What is your opinion?

Myview is that they ought to he hammered a little, but
not too much, in the next issue of the
C.O.[3]

Yourreport, seems to have turned out wonderfully well__

Athousand greetings!

Yours,Lenin

P.S.Goodnews from Petersburg, Moscow Region and
the South. Theworkers’ illegal organisation is growing
and taking shape. A reform ofPravdahasbegun.

Troyanowskyis starting something like an intrigue on
account of Koba’s article forProsveshcheniye: “The
Problem of Nationalities and Social-Democracy”. He wants
it to be stated that the article is for discussion, because
Galina is for cultural-national autonomy!!

Ofcourse we are absolutely against. The article is avery good one. It’s a burning question, and we shall not
give up one iota of our attitude in principle against the
Bundist rabble.

Itmay “blow over”, but ...tenez vous pour
averti![2]

Wehave decidedto attack the Vperyodists. Get Miron
to write whether there is enough money for four pages of
the C.O.

Haveyou read “The Meteor” inRusskoye Bogatstvo?
What is it? A lampoon?

[1]Themanuscript is damaged in places. Several words hero and
below are illegible.—Ed.

[2]Bearit in mind.—Ed.

[3]Sotsial-Demokrat(Social-Democrat)—central organ of the
R.S.D.L.P., an illegal paper published abroad from February 1908
to January 1917. Lenin was virtually in charge of the paper, which
printed more than 80 of his articles and short items. During the
period of reaction (1907–10) and the subsequent revolutionary
revivalSotsial-Demokratwas of enormous significance in the
Bolsheviks’ campaign against the liquidators, Trotskyists and otzovists,
for the preservation of the illegal Marxist party and
strengthening of its ties with the masses.